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"After the end of World War II, museum and gallery exhibitions, industrial and trade fairs, biennials, triennials, festivals and world's fairs all came increasingly to be used as locations for the exercise of 'soft power', for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and as spaces for addressing areas of social and political contestation. This book reflects on approaches to the study of exhibitions within and beyond the disciplinary boundaries of art and design history. It also explores the wider networks and relationships that are engendered through exhibitions. Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries traces relations across a wide set of geographies: Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific and the USA. It draws on a range of methodologies and interdisciplinary perspectives principally from art and design history but also from social, economic and political history and museum studies. Featured case studies include explorations of the life and work of Misha Black, Belgo-American exchanges during the Cold War, Israel's appearance at the 1948-1952 Venice Biennale and the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. This book's impressively global scope is in line with its outward-looking subject matter and its international line up of contributors further underlines this"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword, Jonathan M. Woodham (University of Brighton, UK)
• Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries, an Introduction, Harriet Atkinson (University of Brighton, UK), Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, USA), and Verity Clarkson (University of Brighton, UK)
• 1. Universal Civilization and National Cultures: Producing Israel at the Venice Biennale, 1948-1952, Chelsea Haines (Purchase College, SUNY, USA)
• 2. Salvaging through Merchandising: America's Vietnamese Craft Diplomacy on Display in the US in 1956 and 1958, Jennifer Way (University of North Texas, USA)
• 3. 'A Slightly Exotic Country': Rethinking Poland's Identity through Display at the 11th Milan Triennale, 1957, Katarzyna Jezowska (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
• 4. Self-management on Display: Negotiating the Visions of Yugoslav Socialist Modernity at Expo 58 and Porodica i domacinstvo Exhibitions, Rujana Rebernjak (Middlesex University, UK)
• 5. 'One of the Puzzles of the Exhibition': A Misunderstood Cittadina, Neoliberty, and the Italian Display at Brussels Expo 58, Rika Devos and Serena Pacchiani (Universitë Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
• 6. Assembling Smallness: The United States Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, 1961, Nushelle de Silva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• 7. Painting from the Pacific and Artistic Exchange across the Pacific, 1961, Ian Cooke (Independent Scholar, USA)
• 8. 'A Wholly American Plastic Package': Transnationalism, Technology, and Theology at The Vatican Pavilion in the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, Ethan Robey (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• 9. 'The Gentle Art of Cookery': Exhibiting Transnational Anglo-Russian Diplomatic History During the Cold War, 1967, Verity Clarkson (University of Brighton, UK)
• 10. From FESMAN '66 to FESTAC '77: Competing Curatorial Strategies for African American Art at Pan-African Festivals, Lindsay Twa (Augustana University, USA)
• 11. Designing Stability: Hong Kong's Pavilion at Local Expositions and Expo 70 in Osaka, Daniel Cooper and Juliana Kei (Royal College of Art, UK).
• 12. Pharaoh Diplomacy: The Soft Power of the Treasures of Tutankhamun, Mario Schulze (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland)
• 13. Plastic Diplomacy: An Environmental Approach to Transnational Exhibitions, Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Art — Exhibitions — History — 20th century

Museum exhibits — History — 20th century

Exhibitions — History — 20th century

Cultural relations — History — 20th century

Cultural diplomacy — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Museum exhibits

Exhibition catalogs

Cultural relations

Cultural diplomacy

Art — Exhibitions

Genres:

History

Art

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

N4396. .E93 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781350088511 (electronic)
135008851X (electronic)
9781350088498 (ebook)
9781350088504 (PDF)
9781350088481 (print) [Invalid]

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.5040/9781350088511

OCLC Numbers:

1290325257

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